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September 28, 2000
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September 28, 2000
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September 28, 2000
The Chair
The chair left out in the garden night all winter
Sits waiting for the summer day all night.The insides of the metal arms are frozen.
Over the house the night sky wheels and turnsAll winter long even behind the day.
David Ferry
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September 28, 2000
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September 28, 2000
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July 13, 2000
The Speed of Poetry
When I visit the Poetry Publication Showcase, an annual display of the year’s new poetry books at Poets House in Manhattan, I feel as if I’ve been granted a precious audience with Poetry itself.
Jan Clausen
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April 13, 2000
Poetry
After Troy
Not quite putting on what little power or knowledge
pigeons lay claim to, she nonetheless bids them come.
Launched off cornices,Various Contributors
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November 18, 1999
1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize of $10,000, awarded annually for the most outstanding book of poems published in the United States by an American, is administered mutually by the A
Marilyn Hacker
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October 28, 1999
Slouching to the Ouija Board
“Does the imagination dwell the most/Upon a woman won or woman lost?” Yeats asked. For most of his readers and biographers, the answer has been clear: a woman lost.
Benjamin Kunkel
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June 3, 1999
Mouth of the Dying Day
W.H. Auden observed that biographies “are always superfluous and usually in bad taste,” but Edward Mendelson’s book on him, Later Auden, is neither.
Grace Schulman